The SwissSkills, a promotional software for apprenticeship in Switzerland – rts.ch

The competitions are on the coronary heart of this nice occasion, which takes place on the Bernexpo website and which ought to welcome almost 120,000 guests. On this system are 85 occupation championships, to that are added 65 occupation shows. The award ceremony will happen on Saturday night within the presence of Federal Councilor Man Parmelin.

This platform for vocational coaching is necessary within the combat towards the scarcity of expert labour, defined Bernese State Councilor Christoph Ammann to the media. The SwissSkills even have nice financial worth: in accordance with a examine by the College of Bern, the final version of 2018 generated an added worth of 35.4 million francs, he added.

Distinction in notion

Though the picture of apprenticeship has taken on new colours in French-speaking Switzerland, there are nonetheless efforts to be made to put it on the market. Its notion differs in accordance with the linguistic areas, with additionally a town-country divide.

One of many explanations could be due specifically to the distribution of universities throughout Switzerland. Romandie alone has 4, whereas the remainder of the nation has 5 universities.

“We will clearly say that there’s a distinction in notion. In German-speaking Switzerland, we could have a barely extra rural basin, as a result of there’s much less of this density of universities. In Latin Switzerland, we has in quantity. It may well play a task”, explains Laurent Seppey, head of the Swiss group at World Abilities, within the 7:30 p.m.

Practically 20,000 college students from Romandie

Since 2018 and the final version of SwissSkills, the promotion of the occasion and studying has been enormously emphasised in French-speaking Switzerland.

“We created a particular working group, the place for every canton we discovered a SwissSkills consultant. They have been those who helped us open the doorways of the cantons to herald the scholars,” says Selina Küpfer, chargeable for Latin Switzerland.

This promotion has borne fruit since almost 20,000 college students from French-speaking Switzerland can be touring to Bern throughout this week.

An already file version

The professions championship has existed on this type since 2014. The primary version of the SwissSkills had already been held in Bern, just like the 2018 version. Given the passion of the general public, a 3rd version was deliberate for 2020, however it happened at a number of websites in Switzerland with out an viewers as a result of pandemic.

The president of the organizing committee Daniel Arn spoke about “SwissSkills of data”: seventy skilled associations are current on website; the greater than 1,000 contributors come from almost 900 coaching firms and 165 vocational faculties.

>> The small print of Nicolas Rossé within the 7:30 p.m.

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